The Garden Of Cymodoce Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Sea and bright wind and heaven of ardent air	A
More dear than all things earth born O to me	B
Mother more dear than love's own longing sea	B
More than love's eyes are fair	A
Be with my spirit of song as wings to bear	A
As fire to feel and breathe and brighten be	B
A spirit of sense more deep of deity	B
A light of love if love may be more strong	C
In me than very song	C
For song I have loved with second love but thee	B
Thee first thee mother ere my songs had breath	D
That love of loves whose bondage makes man free	B
Was in me strong as death	D
And seeing no slave may love thee no not one	E
That loves not freedom more	F
And more for thy sake loves her and for hers	G
Thee or that hates not on whate'er thy shore	F
Or what thy wave soever all things done	E
Of man beneath the sun	E
In his despite and thine to cross and curse	H
Your light and song that as with lamp and verse	H
Guide safe the strength of our sphered universe	H
Thy breath it was thou knowest and none but thine	I
That taught me love of one thing more divine	I
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Str	F
Ah yet my youth was old	J
Its first years dead and cold	J
As last year's autumn's gold	J
And all my spirit of singing sick and sad and sere	F
Or ever I might behold	J
The fairest of thy fold	J
Engirt enringed enrolled	J
In all thy flower sweet flock of islands dear and near	F
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Str	F
Yet in my heart I deemed	K
The fairest things meseemed	K
Truth dreaming ever dreamed	K
Had made mine eyes already like a god's to see	B
Of all sea things that were	F
Clothed on with water and air	F
That none could live more fair	F
Than thy sweet love long since had shown for love to me	B
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Ant	K
I knew not mother of mine	I
That one birth more divine	I
Than all births else of thine	I
That hang like flowers or jewels on thy deep soft breast	K
Was left for me to shine	I
Above thy girdling line	I
Of bright and breathing brine	I
To take mine eyes with rapture and my sense with rest	K
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Ant	K
That this was left for me	B
Mother to have of thee	B
To touch to taste to see	B
To feel as fire fulfilling all my blood and breath	D
As wine of living fire	F
Keen as the heart's desire	F
That makes the heart its pyre	F
And on its burning visions burns itself to death	D
For here of all thy waters here of all	L
Thy windy ways the wildest and beset	K
As some beleaguered city's war breached wall	L
With deaths enmeshed all round it in deep net	K
Thick sown with rocks deadlier than steel and fierce	M
With loud cross countering currents where the ship	N
Flags flickering like a wind bewildered leaf	O
The densest weft of waves that prow may pierce	M
Coils round the sharpest warp of shoals that dip	N
Suddenly scarce well under for one brief	O
Keen breathing space between the streams adverse	H
Scarce showing the fanged edge of one hungering lip	N
Or one tooth lipless of the ravening reef	O
And midmost of the murderous water's web	P
All round it stretched and spun	E
Laughs reckless of rough tide and raging ebb	P
The loveliest thing that shines against the sun	E
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Str	F
O flower of all wind flowers and sea flowers	G
Made lovelier by love of the sea	B
Than thy golden own field flowers or tree flowers	G
Like foam of the sea facing tree	B
No foot but the seamew's there settles	Q
On the spikes of thine anthers like horns	R
With snow coloured spray for thy petals	Q
Black rocks for thy thorns	R
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Ant	K
Was it here in the waste of his waters	G
That the lordly north wind when his love	S
On the fairest of many king's daughters	G
Bore down for a spoil from above	S
Chose forth of all farthest far islands	T
As a haven to harbour her head	K
Of all lowlands on earth and all highlands	T
His bride worthy bed	K
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Str	B
Or haply my sea flower he found thee	B
Made fast as with anchors to land	K
And broke that his waves might be round thee	B
Thy fetters like rivets of sand	K
And afar by the blast of him drifted	K
Thy blossom of beauty was borne	U
As a lark by the heart in her lifted	K
To mix with the morn	U
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Ant	K
By what rapture of rage by what vision	E
Of a heavenlier heaven than above	S
Was he moved to devise thy division	E
From the land as a rest for his love	S
As a nest when his wings would remeasure	B
The ways where of old they would be	B
As a bride bed upbuilt for his pleasure	B
By sea rock and sea	B
For in no deeps of midmost inland May	V
More flowerbright flowers the hawthorn or more sweet	K
Swells the wild gold of the earth for wandering feet	K
For on no northland way	V
Crowds the close whin bloom closer set like thee	B
With thorns about for fangs of sea rock shown	W
Through blithe lips of the bitter brine to lee	B
Nor blithelier landward comes the sea wind blown	W
Nor blithelier leaps the land wind back to sea	B
Nor louder springs the living song of birds	X
To shame our sweetest words	X
And in the narrowest of thine hollowest hold	K
For joy thine aspens quiver as though for cold	K
And many a self lit flower illumined tree	B
Outlaughs with snowbright or with rosebright glee	B
The laughter of the fields whose laugh is gold	K
Yea even from depth to height	K
Even thine own beauty with its own delight	K
Fulfils thine heart in thee an hundredfold	K
Beyond the larger hearts of islands bright	K
With less intense contraction of desire	B
Self satiate centred in its own deep fire	B
Of shores not self enchanted and entranced	K
By heavenly severance from all shadow of mirth	Y
Or mourning upon earth	Y
As thou by no similitude enhanced	K
By no fair foil made fairer but alone	W
Fair as could be no beauty save thine own	W
And wondrous as no world beholden wonder	B
Throned with the world's most perilous sea for throne	W
And praised from all its choral throats of thunder	B
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Str	B
Yet one praise hast thou holier	B
Than praise of theirs may be	B
To exalt thee wert thou lowlier	B
Than all that take the sea	B
With shores whence waves ebb slowlier	B
Than these fall off from thee	B
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Ant	K
That One whose name gives glory	B
One man whose life makes light	K
One crowned and throned in story	B
Above all empire's height	K
Came where thy straits run hoary	B
To hold thee fast in sight	K
	-
Str	B
With hallowing eyes to hold thee	B
With rapturous heart to read	K
To encompass and enfold thee	B
With love whence all men feed	K
To brighten and behold thee	B
Who is mightiest of man's seed	K
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Ant	K
More strong than strong disaster	B
For fate and fear too strong	C
Earth's friend whose eyes look past her	B
Whose hands would purge of wrong	C
Our lord our light our master	B
Whose word sums up all song	C
	-
Str	B
Be it April or September	B
That plays his perfect part	K
Burn June or blow December	B
Thou canst not in thine heart	K
But rapturously remember	B
All heavenlike as thou art	K
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Ant	K
Whose footfall made thee fairer	B
Whose passage more divine	I
Whose hand our thunder bearer	B
Held fire that bade thee shine	I
With subtler glory and rarer	B
Than thrills the sun's own shrine	I
Who knows how then his godlike banished gaze	Z
Turned haply from its goal of natural days	Z
And homeward hunger for the clear French clime	V
Toward English earth whereunder now the Accursed	K
Rots in the hate of all men's hearts inhearsed	K
A carrion ranker to the sense of time	V
For that sepulchral gift of stone and lime	V
By royal grace laid on it less of weight	K
Than the load laid by fate	K
Fate misbegotten child of his own crime	V
Son of as foul a bastard bearing birth	Y
As even his own on earth	Y
Less heavy than the load of cursing piled	K
By loyal grace of all souls undefiled	K
On one man's head whose reeking soul made rotten	E
The loathed live corpse on earth once misbegotten	E
But when our Master's homeless feet were here	B
France yet was foul with joy more foul than fear	B
And slavery chosen more vile by choice of chance	A2
Than dull damnation of inheritance	B2
From Russian year to year	B
Alas fair mother of men alas my France	A2
What ailed thee so to fall that wert so dear	B
For all men's sake to all men in such trance	A2
Plague stricken Had the very Gods that saw	C2
Thy glory lighten on us for a law	C2
Thy gospel go before us for a guide	K
Had these waxed envious of our love and awe	D2
Or was it less their envy than thy pride	K
That bared thy breast for the obscene vulture claw	C2
High priestess by whose mouth Love prophesied	K
That fate should yet mean freedom Howsoever	B
That hour the helper of men's hearts we praise	Z
Which blots out of man's book of after days	Z
The name above all names abhorred for ever	B
And His name shall we praise not whom these flowers	G
These rocks and ravening waters bound for girth	Y
Round this wild starry spanlong plot of earth	Y
Beheld the mightier for those heavier hours	G
That bowed his heart not down	E2
Nor marred one crowning blossom of his crown	E2
For surely might we say	V
Even from the dark deep sea gate that makes way	V
Through channelled darkness for the darkling day	V
Hardly to let men's faltering footfall win	F2
The sunless passage in	F2
Where breaks a world aflower against the sun	E
A small sweet world of wave encompassed wonder	B
Kept from the wearier landward world asunder	B
With violence of wild waters and with thunder	B
Of many winds as one	E
To where the keen sea current grinds and frets	G2
The black bright sheer twin flameless Altarlets	G2
That lack no live blood sacrifice they crave	H2
Of shipwreck and the shrine subservient wave	H2
Having for priest the storm wind and for choir	B
Lightnings and clouds whose prayer and praise are fire	B
All the isle acclaimed him coming she the least	K
Of all things loveliest that the sea's love hides	G2
From strange men's insult walled about with tides	G2
That bid strange guests back from her flower strewn feast	K
Set all her fields aflower her flowers aflame	V
To applaud him that he came	V
Nor surely flashed not something of delight	K
Through that steep strait of rock whose twin cliffed height	K
Links crag with crag reiterate land with land	K
By one sheer thread of narrowing precipice	G2
Bifront that binds and sunders	G2
Abyss from hollower imminent abyss	G2
And wilder isle with island blind for bliss	G2
Of sea that lightens and of wind that thunders	G2
Nor pealed not surely back from deep to steep	I2
Reverberate acclamation steep to deep	I2
Inveterately reclaiming and replying	J2
Praise and response applausive nor the sea	G2
For all the sea wind's crying	J2
Knew not the song her sister even as she	G2
Thundering or like her confluent spring tides brightening	J2
And like her darkness lightening	J2
The song that moved about him silent now	K2
Both soundless wings refolded and refurled	K
On that Promethean brow	K2
Then quivering as for flight that wakes the world	K
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Str	K2
From the roots of the rocks underlying the gulfs that engird it around	K
Was the isle not enkindled with light of him landing or thrilled not with sound	K
Yea surely the sea like a harper laid hand on the shore as a lyre	K2
As the lyre in his own for a birthright of old that was given of his sire	K2
And the hand of the child was put forth on the chords yet alive and aflame	V
From the hand of the God that had wrought it in heaven and the hand was the same	V
And the tongue of the child spake singing and never a note that he sang	L2
But the strings made answer unstricken as though for the God they rang	L2
And the eyes of the child shone lightening and touched as by life at his nod	K
They shuddered with music and quickened as though from the glance of the God	K
So trembled the heart of the hills and the rocks to receive him and yearned	K
With desirous delight of his presence and love that beholding him burned	K
Yea down through the mighty twin hollows where never the sunlight shall be	G2
Deep sunk under imminent earth and subdued to the stress of the sea	G2
That feel when the dim week changes by change of their tides in the dark	M2
As the wave sinks under within them reluctant removed from its mark	M2
Even there in the terror of twilight in bloom with its blossoms ablush	G2
Did a sense of him touch not the gleam of their flowers with a fierier flush	G2
Though the sun they behold not for ever yet knew they not over them One	E
Whose soul was the soul of the morning whose song was the song of the sun	E
But the secrets inviolate of sunlight in hollows untrodden of day	K
Shall he dream what are these who beholds not or he that hath seen shall he say	K
For the path is for passage of sea mews and he that hath glided and leapt	K
Over sea grass and sea rock alighting as one from a citadel crept	K
That his foemen beleaguer descending by darkness and stealth at the last	K
Peers under and all is as hollow to hellward agape and aghast	K
	-
Ant	K
But afloat and afar in the darkness a tremulous colour subsides	G2
From the crimson high crest of the purple peaked roof to the soft coloured sides	G2
That brighten as ever they widen till downward the level is won	E
Of the soundless and colourless water that knows not the sense of the sun	E
From the crown of the culminant arch to the floor of the lakelet abloom	V
One infinite blossom of blossoms innumerable aflush through the gloom	V
All under the deeps of the darkness are glimmering all over impends	G2
An immeasurable infinite flower of the dark that dilates and descends	G2
That exults and expands in its breathless and blind efflorescence of heart	K
As it broadens and bows to the wave ward and breathes not and hearkens apart	K
As a beaker inverse at a feast on Olympus exhausted of wine	I
But inlaid as with rose from the lips of Dione that left it divine	I
From the lips everliving of laughter and love everlasting that leave	N2
In the cleft of his heart who shall kiss them a snake to corrode it and cleave	N2
So glimmers the gloom into glory the glory recoils into gloom	V
That the eye of the sun could not kindle the lip not of Love could relume	V
So darkens reverted the cup that the kiss of her mouth set on fire	K2
So blackens a brand in his eyeshot asmoulder awhile from the pyre	K2
For the beam from beneath and without it refrangent again from the wave	H2
Strikes up through the portal a ghostly reverse on the dome of the cave	H2
On the depth of the dome ever darkling and dim to the crown of its arc	M2
That the sun coloured tapestry sunless for ever may soften the dark	M2
But within through the side seen archway a glimmer again from the right	K
Is the seal of the sea's tide set on the mouth of the mystery of night	K
And the seal on the seventh day breaks but a little that man by its mean	O2
May behold what the sun hath not looked on the stars of the night have not seen	O2
Even like that hollow bosomed rose inverse	G2
And infinite the heaven of thy vast verse	G2
Our Master over all our souls impends	G2
Imminent we with heart enkindled eyes	G2
Upwondering search the music moulded skies	G2
Sphere by sweet sphere concordant as it blends	G2
Light of bright sound sound of clear light in one	E
As all the stars found utterance through the sun	E
And all that heaven is like a rose in bloom	V
Flower coloured where its own sun's fires illume	V
As from one central and imperious heart	K
The whole sky's every part	K
But lightening still and darkling downward lo	P2
The light and darkness of it	K
The leaping of the lamping levin afar	K2
Between the full moon and the sunset star	K2
The war song of the sounding skies aglow	P2
That have the herald thunder for their prophet	K
From north to south the lyric lights that leap	I2
The tragic sundawns reddening east and west	K
As with bright blood from one Promethean breast	K
The peace of noon that strikes the sea to sleep	I2
The wail over the world of all that weep	I2
The peace of night when death brings life on rest	K
Goddess who gatherest all the herded waves	G2
Into thy great sweet pastureless green fold	K
Even for our love of old	K
I pray thee by thy power that slays and saves	G2
Take thou my song of this thy flower to keep	I2
Who hast my heart in hold	K
And from thine high place of thy garden steep	I2
Where one sheer terrace oversees thy deep	I2
From the utmost rock reared height	K
Down even to thy dear depths of night and light	K
Take my song's salutation and on me	V
Breathe back the benediction of thy sea	V
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	-
Between two seas the sea bird's wing makes halt	K
Wind weary while with lifting head he waits	G2
For breath to reinspire him from the gates	G2
That open still toward sunrise on the vault	K
High domed of morning and in flight's default	K
With spreading sense of spirit anticipates	G2
What new sea now may lure beyond the straits	G2
His wings exulting that her winds exalt	K
And fill them full as sails to seaward spread	K
Fulfilled with fair speed's promise Pass my song	C
Forth to the haven of thy desire and dread	K
The presence of our lord long loved and long	C
Far off above beholden who to thee	V
Was as light kindling all a windy sea	V

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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